In forehead and temples, fullness and throbbing, heavy drooping eyelids, blindness or flashes of light;
flushed face, hot head, sense of burning in eyeballs; all the symptoms < by light, noise, movement, or lying down, easiest when
sitting.
Kali. Carb. 6. ½ h.
Sick headache or migraine; drawing, tearing, pressive pains; intolerance of light; disturbances
of vision. during an attack, 8h. during the intervals.
Acon. 3, ½ h.
Pressive headache. as if everything would come out at the forehead; or as if the scalp were compressed all over by a pitch cap; blind headache; supra-orbital headache; squeezing in forehead above root of nose; face pale or livid and anxious.
Kali bic. 5, 2h.
Headache over one eye, especially right; before headache comes on sight is blurred, the sight improving when the pain begins.
Caps. 3, 1-4h.
Headache on coughing as if the skull would burst; bursting, full headache; constant pressing headache above the root of the nose, together with some stitches through the eye and over the eye; stitching headache; throbbing in one or other temple; drawing, tearing headache.
Carb. V. 6, 4h.
Over left eye, with acidity and eructations.
Cann. I. 3, 4h.
As if the top of the head were opening and shutting; or as if the calvarium were being lifted off; headache with flatulence, throbbing of occiput.
Nux V. 3, 2h.
Sick headache in persons of spare build, costive habit, and sedentary life. Heavy pressive headache, with giddiness, flushed face, derangement of stomach as after overeating or drinking or smoking, constipation; increased by taking food and on mental exertion.
Sul. 6-30, 4h.
Throbbing or pressing headache, vertex or occiput; burning heat on vertex; < coughing; < at night in bed; < on waking; > pressure; congestive headache with rush of blood to head; headaches recurring once a week.
Sep. 6-30, 8h.
Periodical every Saturday; as if head would burst and the eyes would fall out, > by rest, by closing eyes, in open air, lying on painful side. Headache in terrific shocks; involuntary jerking of head.
Gels. 3, 2h.
Dull heavy pains in the head, especially at the vertex, with throbbing in the temples, drooping eyelids, heavy eyes, giddiness, > on copious evacuation of pale urine.
Bry. 3, 2h.
Bursting, splitting, pressive headache in forehead, across the eyes, > by pressure, greatly < by stooping, which causes a sensation as if the brain would fall out; sick headache of right side with retching and bilious vomiting, < from all movement, even of the eyes.
Glon. 3, 1h.
Headache from sunstroke or exposure to heat, violent throbbing, made worse by every movement, flushed face; bursting headache.
Cact. G. 3, 2h.
Headache from exposure to sun, feeling of constriction and fullness, pressive headache at vertex, especially with menstrual derangements, or at the menopause.
Bov. 6, 2h.
Headache, as if the head were swelling to a great size.
Aloe 3, 2h.
Heavy, dull pressing in forehead, incapacitating from mental labour.
Leptand. 1, 2h.
Constant dull frontal headache from liver derangement.
Phos. Ac. 1, 2h.
Pressive headache at the vertex.
Phell. 3, 4h.
Pain like a heavy weight at the top of the head, aching and burning in the temples and above the eyes, pain in the eyes, congestion, lachrymation, intolerance of light and sound.
Ars. 3, 2h.
Burning sensation at the top of the head; supra-orbital headache; periodical; accompanied by debility, or arising from debility, red tongue, low, feverish condition, > by wet applications and in open air.
Chinin. Sulph. 3, 4h.
Supra-orbital neuralgic headache, dim vision.
Nat. Mur. 6, 4h.
Headache coming on in the morning on waking, and lasting the greater part of the day; headache brought on by coughing.
Lach. 6, 4h.
Burning vertex headaches of the menopause; one-sided sick headache, with pale face; headache < after sleep.
Naja 6, 2h.
Weight and oppression at vertex, with cold feet and flushing of the face; dull but severe pain in the fore part of the side of the head, with great depression.
Plumb. 6, 4h.
Dull headaches, with depressed spirits and constipation.
Act. R. 3, 2h.
Headaches from loss of sleep, mental strain, worry; aching at the vertex, occiput, and in eyeballs.
Pic. Ac. 3, 4h.
Headache beginning in the occiput, extending forwards and downwards, causing obscuration of sight; shooting pain up spine into head.
Hell. N. 3, 2h.
Constant dull aching in the nape of the neck.
Ign. 3, 2h.
Pressive aching in limited spots; pressure at centre of forehead and root of nose; headache from worry, anxiety or grief; "clavus," pressive sick headaches, with disturbance of vision, passing off with a copious discharge of clear urine, face pale.
Iris V. 3, 2h.
Headache beginning with a blur before the eves, dull, heavy, or throbbing and shooting in the forehead and up the right side, with nausea, vomiting, and great depression.
Lyc. 6-30, 2-4h.
Headache on vertex, temples (mostly r.), above eyes, root of nose, < when covered, < at night and lying down; > in open air and from cold; < 4-8 p.m.
Chel. 1, 2h.
Pressive headache on the right side and over the right eye. (Chel. and Lyc. follow and complement each other well.)
Sang. 1, 2h.
One-sided sick headache, pain coming from back of head, and settling in right eye, > by lying down and by sleep, accompanied by bilious vomiting; aching of teeth and in ears; pains in the limbs, electric shootings in the head, and shivering (menses profuse).
Cocc. Ind. 3, 2h.
Sick headache, with vomiting, as in sea-sickness.
Zincum Sulph. 6, 2h.
Sick headache, with violent vomiting.
Calc. Acet. 3, 2h.
Sick headache, with coldness of the head much acid in the eructations and vomit.
Silic. 6, 4h.
Chronic headache, with sensitiveness to pressure, noise, motion and light, > by warmth (as by wrapping the head in a shawl); chronic headache with nervousness and loss of memory from overwork, commencing low in the back of the neck with a feeling as if the muscles could not support the head, passing over to the top of the head, forehead, and at times involving the eyeballs and making them sore.
Hep. S. 6, 4h.
Boring pain at the root of the nose, rheumatic headache, where the pressure of the hat is not tolerated.
Zinc. 6, 4h.
Chronic headaches with melancholia.
Spig. 3, 2h.
Headache, like neuralgia, especially on left side, pain coming at regular intervals, spreading from the brow to the face and neck, and involving the eyes, < by the least concussion or motion, especially stooping; pale face, restlessness, palpitation.
Ferr. Pyrophos. Ix, gtt. iii. 4h.
Headache of passive congestion after great losses of blood.
China. 1, 2h. Jerking,
tearing pains in the head; the brain beats in waves against the skull; sensitiveness, noises in the ear, made < by walking, > by lying down.
Cham. 6, 2h.
Pressive drawing pains in the head, intolerable, < when attention is directed to them.
According To Cause And Occasion.-
Caps. 3, 4h.
On coughing, as if the skull would burst.
Nat. M. 6, 4h.
Headache caused by every cough.
Lob. I. 1, 2h.
Headache < by coughing; brain racked by coughing, which causes intolerable pain.
Bry. 1, 2h.
Stitches in the head with cough.
Sul. 6, 4h.
In the occiput, on coughing.
Nux V. 3, 4h.
From over-eating or drinking.
Ars. 3, 4h.
Periodical headaches arising from or associated with state of debility.
Glon. 3, 1h.
From sunstroke, violent throbbing.
Cact. G. 3, 1h.
From sunstroke, as if a tight band were bound round the head.
Leptand. 1, 4h.
From liver derangement, constant dull frontal headache.
Pod. 3, 2h.
Alternating with diarrhoea.
Lach. 6, 4h.
Burning vertex headache of the menopause.
(1) Aethus. C. 3. 4h. (2) Sen. Aur. 1, 2h.
Headache after checked menses.
Ferr. Pyrophos. Ix, gtt. iii. 4h.
Headache from pain in other parts; or congestion after great losses of blood.
Hep. 6, 4h.
Pain in head on shaking it.
Headache of school children.
(1) Calc. Ph. 6x, gr. vi.
night and morning; (2) Nat. M. 30. night and morning.
Hydrophobia.-
Immediately after the bite suck the wound, and whilst sucking, press the parts around in the direction of the wound. After everything possible has been drawn from the wound, the best remedy is heat-whatever is handiest-red-hot iron or coals, or a lighted cigar, to be brought as near the wound as possible without causing violent pains and without burning the skin-as close, in fact, as the patient can bear it. Several pieces should be put in the fire so that one can be used as another cools. The skin around the wound may be smeared with oil, or fat, or soap, or saliva to protect it. All that oozes from the wound should be wiped away. The applications should be repeated three or four times a day, for an hour each time or until shuddering appear, and this should be repeated several days. Afterwards the patient should take daily one or more Turkish or Russian baths for a fortnight. Hydrob. 30 should be taken three times a day for a week, and then Bell. 3 night and morning for six months at least. If, in spite of all precautions, the disease should show itself, the patient should at once be removed to a Turkish bath, or placed in a Russian bath and kept in it. Bell. Ix should be given hypodermically every half-hour, and afterwards, should Bell. not succeed, Stram. Ix-12, every half-hour in the same way.
Lach. 6, ½ h. If there is excessive sensitiveness and the patient wants to tear the clothing away from his throat.
Hydrob. 30, ½ h. If the characteristics spasm of the throat at the sight or sound of water, bright objects or draught of air is marked.
Other remedies are (1) Agave ; 2h. (2) Hyo. 1-30, 2h. (3) Cantaris 3, 2h. (4) Fagus 1, 2h.
Hypertension.-
Aco. 1, 2h.
Pulse full, strong, hard, anxiety, restlessness.
Ver. V. 1, 2h.
Full, hard, bounding pulse, congestive symptoms.
Visc. Alb. Gtt. V. 8h.
In arterial-sclerosis, atheroma and gout. (A French preparation of Mistletoe (Guipsine)
may be given in the form of pills, ii. 4 times a day for a few days and then less often as tension lessens.
Hysteria.-
Mosch. 3, 15m.
In the paroxysm.
Ign. 3, 4h.
Great impressionability, capriciousness, rapidly alternating mental states, "lump" in the throat, effects
of worry.
Croc. 6, 6h.
Outbursts of passion followed by quick repentance; hysterical laughter.
Plat. 6, 4h.
Great depression.
Asaf. 3, 4h.
"Lump" in the throat, hysterical cough and asthma, distension of the body
Sen. Aur. 1, 4h.
With amenorrhoea.
Act. R. 3-30, 4h.
Gnawing sensation in epigastrium, unconquerable gloom, tendency to suicide.
Tarent. 3, 4h.
Convulsive hysteria.
Valer. 3, 4h.
Nervous excitement and sleeplessness.
See also Mania and Melancholia.